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Mail Tribune 100, Oct. 9, 1922 By Alissa Corman Oct 09, 2022 12:00 AM A A News from 100 years ago The following news items were drawn from the archives of the Mail Tribune 100 years ago Oct. 9, 1922 THIS IS NATIONAL FIRE PREVENTION DAY By national proclamation October 9 has been made National Fire Prevention Day. The reasons for this are obvious. It brings to mind with all of its attendant horrors, one of the monumental fires of the century, and it is at the beginning of the season when people generally require fire in their homes, consequently there is more danger of fire and greater cause to be careful. In the half century since the Chicago disaster intelligent public agitation against fire has made unquestionable progress. Municipal firefighting resources have been greatly enlarged and improved and the prevention campaigns actuated by the insurance companies have had an appreciable effect in reducing fire risks. How grave those risks yet remain notwithstanding is indicated by the statistics published by the association. In the year 1921, fire in the United States caused a property loss of $485,000,000, killed nearly 15,000 persons and injured more than 16,000, and of these casualties 83 percent were suffered by mothers, children and invalids. In the words of the association, “nearly 90 percent of these losses of life and property are due to carelessness and lack of proper education as to existing hazards.” Observance of Fire Prevention Day may increase the amount of proper education against fire. Whenever it is possible to remove or correct a hazardous condition, it should be done. Too much care can not be taken. People are urged to look over the chimneys whether for furnace or stove, clean out the cellars and the attics, take a look through the backyards and the alleys and wherever they find anything that will start a fire under any combination of circumstances, remove it if that is at all possible. Although Monday, October 9, is Fire Prevention Day, and it will help to observe it, the kind of fire prevention that will check the awful annual water of life and property in our state is a 365-day-in-the-year campaign. LOCAL AND PERSONAL A convoy of about ten army trucks from Eugene passed through Medford yesterday en route to San Francisco leaded with hangars and equipment used by the forest patrol planes which were stationed at Eugene all summer and which passed through en route to Crissey Field last Friday. ----- Virgin’s Radio Service will again broadcast a concert from station K. F. A. Y. Wednesday night at the fair grounds pavilion when Launspach’s pavilion orchestra plays for the regular mid-week dance. They have recently posted a map in their window which bristles with pin heads showing stations all over the west that have picked up K. F. A. Y. concerts. — Alissa Corman; [email protected]